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Drab [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Being of a dun color, like the cloth so called.

Drab [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

2. A low, sluttish woman. [This seems to be the sense in which it is generally used in New England.]

3. A kind of wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. Its bottom is shelving or inclining that the water may drain off.

4. A kind of thick woolen cloth.

Drab [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To associate with strumpets.

Drab [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of a color between gray and brown.

Drab [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A low, sluttish woman.

2. A lewd wench; a strumpet.

3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

4. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

5. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

6. A drab color.

Drab [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To associate with strumpets; to wench.

Drabbed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Drabber [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who associates with drabs; a wencher.

Drabbet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A coarse linen fabric, or duck.

Drabbing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An associating with strumpets.

Drabbing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Keeping company with lewd women.

Drabbing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Drabbish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Somewhat drab in color.

2. Having the character of a drab or low wench.

Drabble [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To fish for barbels with a long line and rod.

Drabble [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To draggle; to make dirty by drawing in mud and water; to wet and befoul; as, to drabble a gown or cloke. In scottish, this word signifies to dirty by slabbering, as if it were allied to dribble, drivel, from the root of drip, which coincides with drop.

Drabble [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.

Drabble [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To draggle; to wet and befoul by draggling; as, to drabble a gown or cloak.

Drabble-tail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A draggle-tail; a slattern.

Drabbled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Drabbler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

Drabbling [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Drawing in mud or water; angling for barbels.

Drabbling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A method of angling for barbels with a rod and a long line passed through a piece of lead.

Drabbling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Drabler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In seamens language, a small additional sail, sometimes laced to the bottom of a bonnet on a square sail, in sloops and schooners. It is the same to a bonnet, as a bonnet is to a course.